Although some viewers will "tear you apart", some of us are greatly appreciative. We don't have the time to try multiple games. This video serves as a guide to a few titles which we can listen to your points and pick the best for us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. They are appreciated more than you realize.

Just finished a week of board gaming with my board gaming buddy who came up north for our twice annual game marathons. We planned for months which of the Players' Aid recommended war games (still in their plastic wrap some for over a year, as part of the fun of sharing a new game is the unwrapping) to tackle. Combat Infantry, Fire in the Sky, Race to Moscow, O.S.T., Assault Red Horizon, C.O.H., and Combat Commander were all on the list and stacked on the table...but it turns out we had become old farts over this last year...as the endurance wasn't what it once was! We opened a few and only had the energy to learn and play three scenarios or Armaggedon War, to learn and play Struggle for Europe (a fantastic and fun game with easy mechanics built around tough strategic choices) and several American versus German Up Front confrontations (Up Front being both our all-time favorite tactical WW2 game), then threw in several day long sessions of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Cases "The Promise" and "Red River Valley" (as the SHCD series is our 37 year founding gaming parent) and a few short fillers between breakfast, dinner, the NBA playoffs on TV, and unscheduled naps. October's next get-together will clear off a few more must play titles...hopefully. However, un-played games gives purpose to living a long life!

Great info guys. I'm back into board gaming. Played Avalon Hill games a lot years ago. Your my top source for info on what to play now !! Thanks much. Will be watching in the future.

Another fantastic episode and I really enjoyed it! Great stuff, thank you guys!

I'm a little late to the program here, but thank you so much for this video and really for all the videos you do. I'm older and I grew up with Avalon Hill and their small print huge rule books from the 1970's. When I was a teenager, I could devour those rule books. Now...not so much, so I was so happy that you also mentioned how easy/hard the rule books were and how easy they are to pick up. Thanks.

THANKS A LOT for all these great reviews and tops, we need more wargaming YT channels like yours !

Fave tactical game is - Combat Commander. Love it, and the narratives that it generates are so good that the wife will even play it for the story. Glad you guys like it too. Second fave - Commands and Colors Napoleonics - the pinnacle of the C & C system IMHO.

Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer (and Screaming Ealges). Best tactical system known to man :)

Thank you so much for doing this list, fantastic content 👍

I'm new to your channel. Seen a few of your videos, love the authenticity of your reviews and top lists. Thank You for making them!

Great list that easily could have been a top ten for me. As it was I love your picks. It gave me some games to look at acquiring.

Great video. Enjoyed your enthusiasm!

Band of Brothers by Jim Krohn & Worthington, best tactical game I've ever played, and I have all of the games in both of your lists except Columbia's Combat Infantry, Fields of Fire and LnL. I had Ranger when it first came out a million years ago, don't have it any longer regrettably. Great lists, great vid!👍👍

Like this video a lot and thanks Gents. wish you'd shown a few shots of board, pieces, etc of the games you're discussing. thx!

If you like narrative, ASL is a must try.

Great video! Although I do recommend you give ASL Starter Kit a try. They have done an amazing job with it!

Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles. Nice job guys. Keep on making episodes!

ASL is my favorite, by far. The reason? No other game is as exciting - as tense. So many games come down to the last turn - even to the last die roll. Lots of crazy stuff is always happening, such chaos yet it goes to the wire so often. FoF is my 2nd. If I had more time I'd give Walker's stuff a better try.

Hey guys... I loved this video! I'm a real tactical gamer... also solo. "Combat Infantry" is always a favorite. I haven't tried "65" but I would love to play it. CoH is another system I'd love to own and try.

Thanks, Guys! Lot's of fun.

Outstanding guys!!!

Great video. The love for the hobby definitely comes out in this one. BTW, did you have a coffee before the recording Alexander? I don't think I've seen you this excited.

For alternate impulse and bloody combat with huge tactical depth, Advanced Tobruk System is definitely worth trying, despite its being seriously overlooked. It even sports a pretty robust AI solo system to play all the scenarios.

Great list! Yep - Band of Brothers is good and ASL starter kit 1 too.

You guys should really give ASL Starter Kit a try. MMP is about to introduce sk4 Pacific theater. It will be a stand alone so it's a great introductory into the ASL lite system and Alexander should love the PTO theme, and its cheap too. I would also genuinely recommend trying ASL starter kit 1 as it is the simplest and contains only infantry and light infantry support weapons

Fun video!

Nice, thanks

You know that the Soviet Union, and the Soviet army therefore, was not just made up of Russians but also Ukrainians, Latvians, Kazakhs (the list goes on and on). My toes curl every time I hear someone say of an eastern front game: "Germans v Russians". Historical wargames should be a pretext to learn something about history not just fantasize about war.

Have to admit I have not played any on your list. I am wondering if Ranger was made after a old Commadore 64 game by the same name (loved the game). Being an old war gamer I have been playing ASL since it came out, have all of the Avalon Hill stuff. The one problem with ASL is its a life style game. Some of the other games I like are: Landships, there is not a lot of love for this game, it has its flaws, but I like it. Basically ASL WWI, simpler. Warfighter modern warfare card game by DVG games. It reminds me of Computer Ambush. Really love this one.

I really enjoy your reviews and videos but please, please fix the audio issues. Your voices are muffled and the echo is hard to listen to for long stretches. Overall though thanks for the work and effort in supporting the board gaming community.

ASL a billion times... no just kidding... OST, Lock N Load Tactical, Combat Commander are all good ones... How about some of the lesser known tactical games like Panzer Grenadier, Warstorm Series Normandy The Beginning Of The End, and the new Last Hundred Yards these are all very good as well...

Anyone have a game similar to Kriegsspiel? The OG board game, brick units... the whole dealio? Thank you for the video! It’s been awesome to see this stuff!

A couple other "tactical" games worth mentioning are Heroes of Normandie by Devil Pig Games, and Sergeants the Miniatures Game by Lost Battalion Games. Marco has a couple great vids on Sergeants the Miniatures Game, a game I'm just now getting into. Heroes of Normandie by DPG is moving into Heroes of Stalingrad currently. Both of these games are tremendously fun to play.

you guys should make an updated video for this. :)

Have you guys ever thought about doing a top10 favorite wargaming systems (ala CC, C&C, CoH, SPQR etc)?

R u guys gonna be at GenCon2019? We go every year, and I was so excited to see you this year, that I would like to repeat the experience! This year I saw you guys at the Games Unlimited booth... which I visit more than once every time I go to GenCon! Anyway, hope to see you guys next year, and would like to play a game with you'ns!

Alexander, if you haven't already, you should try Silver Bayonet (GMT, 25th anniversary edition) if you haven't already to help scratch that Vietnam itch..Steve

Alexander. thx for bringing up CoH Guadalcanal. what are the "changes" that are forthcoming with the system that you allude to in the video??? thx !

How did ya get your face on the Heroes of Normandy set :D

Where do you even find Combat Commander : Europe. Its like 160$ on amazon. The gmt p500 is at 277. Any ideas on where to find an affordable copy? lol

Great lineup. Have you tried aslsk, panzer, mbt, toi, bolt action or another miniatures game crossfire.

Heroes of Normandy has interested me for awhile. Grant mentioned 5.0 rules set and x-maps. Are these included or if not, are they "needed" to enjoy the game to its fullest? Is there a separate rule set (sold separately) for solo play?

Hugely frustrating that Ranger is not available to buy in the UK and the company don’t ship to the UK either, love to try the game but it’s for the US region only it would appear.

I wish I had the patience to learn Fields of Fire... From the video it feels like either you guys don't play anything pre-WW2 or that the video is only about WW2+Vietnam but I'm not sure which it is.

Have you done a video on Combat Infantry yet? thanks in advance

Love you guys too. Thanks! ... but is it me, or is the sound quality really poor?

oh my, no Band of Brothers...

No one can play Fields of Fire correctly! :) Also it`s the second edition and still got plenty of errors in the rulebook. But I like it too because it has so many details.

Have you guys checked out “Great War Commander”?

please play Band of Brothers and let us know what you think. IT comes highly recommended from HAMTAG etc.

HAMAID! - a bit of a rip-off, but a very welcome one. Keep them coming!

I found CoH too predictable with its combat results - very mathematical. After a while this detracted from the experience and I simply went back to ASL. Many people think it's hard to learn, but if you start off infantry only and skip some of the more advanced rules, the game is easy to grasp. ASL for me, generates the deepest narrative due to the huge range of results that can be generated. These results are also far less predictable than the mathematical precision of CoH - so make for a better solo experience. That said, I recently bought the CoH solo module - so it will be interesting to give that a go to see if it removes the inherent predictability.

By the way... I loved the legging ad that played before the vid... some women there with very, very nice legs!

Angola at no.1 for me

Audio dampening guys...please

Helpful like a chocolate coffee cup

Combat Commander could have been one of the great games of time if they had instituted constructed decks. As it is, though the random draw is stupid.

"It focuses on the West front so it's Germans vs Americans". What?!

Great video! Also to enhance some modern warfare solo games I have found a great company in Spectre Miniatures check them out and if you like do a review.